Charles Spurgeon - 3-Minute Devotions with Charles Spurgeon. Inspiring Devotions and Prayers

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Charles Spurgeon is considered the most widely read preacher in history, excluding those of the Bible. Throughout his lifetime, he preached to over ten million people.

This godly pastor was well acquainted with hardship. He endured personal and family illness, as well as the enormous task of leading a church whose congregation faced numerous difficulties. Spurgeon did not merely instruct his listeners to ask God for the power to withstand adversity; however, he was a living testimony of one who relied on God to be his strength.

3-Minute Devotions with Charles Spurgeon is a compilation of lightly edited selections from Spurgeons sermons and writings, preceded by brief passages of scripture. Prayer starters have been added to each reading to inspire one-on-one time with the heavenly Father. We pray that these 3-minute devotional readings encourage you to deepen your relationship with Christ.

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
E PHESIANS 3:1617 NIV

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you.
E ZEKIEL 36:26 NIV

Behold, says Christ, I make all things new. What a wonder it is that a man should ever have a new heart!

You know if a lobster loses its claw in a fight it can get a new claw, and that is thought to be very marvelous. It would be very wonderful if men should be able to grow new arms and new legs, but who ever heard of a creature that grew a new heart?

You may have seen a bough lopped off a tree, and you may have thought that perhaps the tree will sprout again and there will be a new limb, but who ever heard of old trees getting new sap and a new core?

But my Lord and Master, the crucified and exalted Savior, has given new hearts and new cores; He has put the vital substance into man afresh and made new creatures of them. I am glad to notice the tear in your eye when you think on the past, but wipe it away now, and look up to the cross and say

Just as I am, without one plea,

But that Your blood was shed for me,

And that You bidst me come to You,

O Lamb, O God, I come.

Make me a new creature! If you have said that from your heart, you are a new creature, dear brother, and we will rejoice together in this regenerating Savior.

Lord, thank You for Your miraculous power. You have given me a new heartand a new spirit that have transformed me and empowered me to do Your will. I have everything I need to begin again, new in You. Amen.

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
J OHN 17:15 KJV

This prayer of Christ is an ever-precious portion to all true believers, from the fact that each of them has an inalienable interest in it.

Every one of us, beloved, when we listen to the words of Christ should recollect that He is praying for us; that while it is for the great body of His elect He intercedes in this chapter and the one preceding it, yet it is also for each believer in particular that He offers intercession.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus love.

Oh, poor sinner, do not be doubtful of my Masters power. Do but touch the hem of His garment, and you shall be made whole. Like the poor woman in the crowd, get at it and touch it, and He will surely say unto you, You are saved. If you will go to Him with this cry,

Im a poor sinner and nothing at all,

And Jesus Christ is my all in all,

then you will see the blessed reason why Jesus interceded thus: I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world.

Lord, I am so overcome with love for You to think that You pray for me, and my name is forever written on Your heart! Oh, that I may love others as You have loved me. Amen.

And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, L ORD , hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
P SALM 9:10 KJV

Fellowship with Christ is so honorable a thing that it is worthwhile to suffer, that we may thereby enjoy it. You have sometimes heard me express a desire that I might be in the number of those who shall be alive and remain, and so shall escape death; but a dear friend of mine says he had rather die, in order that he might thus have fellowship with Christ in His sufferings, and the thought finds an echo in my own breast.

To die with Jesus makes death a perfect treasure; to be a follower in the grave with Him makes death a pleasure. Moreover you and I might be taken for cowards, although we may have fellowship with Him in His glory, if we had no scars to prove the sufferings we had passed through and the wounds we had received for His name.

Thus again you see it is for our good to be here; we should not have known fellowship with the Savior if we had not stayed here a little while. I should never have known the Saviors love half as much if I had not been in the storms of affliction.